Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George VI, 48, sat in an armchair at a formal investiture, while 300 people filed by him in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace. It was his first full state ceremony since his ailing leg began acting up last November...
Radcliffe's 70th anniversary fund committee will sponsor a Bonwit Teller "preview of spring fashions" at 5 p.m. today in the Copley Plaza ballroom. Proceeds from the show will go toward the Annex's current fund drive...
...Song of India), was "King of Jazz," and his music and records were far better known than the small-band New Orleans variety. But after Louis arrived in Manhattan in 1924, and persuaded Fletcher Henderson to let him "open up" on his horn at Broadway's Roseland Ballroom one night, jazz musicians of all existing varieties flocked to listen...
Freedom Is Dynamic. Last week's two-day conference in Cleveland generated some heat. The 1,500 delegates and spectators jammed the Public Auditorium's ballroom so tightly that suits wilted and hairdos straggled. It was made hotter still by the vociferous opposition to the merger, led by big (6 ft. 4 in.) Dr. James Fifield Jr., 49, pastor of the denomination's largest and most prosperous flock-Los Angeles' 4,526-member First Congregational Church...
...Walter P. Blount told the 16th annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons about a new method of treating lame children. Shy, intense Dr. Blount, 48, was the hit of the convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer...